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CABLES.

LATEST CABLES. {THROUGH' REUTER'S AGENCY.}"

BRITISH NAVAL SQUADRONS

VISIT FRANCE.

ELABORATE PROGRAMME

France.

ARRANGED..

LONDON, April 2nd,

week's entertainment has been arranged Sir Dayid for the officers and crews,

The officers will Beatty is in Paris.

OUR LONDON LETTER CENSORSHIP AND DELAYED, CABLES.

[FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.}

Losos, March 17th:

THE CHANNEL TUNNEL.

THE BONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, MAY 3RD. 1910.

purpose in the banki at Brussels, THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK.

NAVY ESTIMATES. EXPENDITURE £119,000,000.

THE MIDDLE CLASSES. GROSS AND UNFAIR BURDENS.

P

who

They

Meanwhile Germany is threatened with east of the whole of the vast lent for service under Colonial or fereign by bureaueratin or industrial tyranny,

make a tour of the battlefields, including clear that the chance of making a start which German gold and German intrigue cheated out of the peace we hoped for

Rheims

LATER.

did hot state definitely in the House of Commons when introducing the subject that the Tunnel is to be built; that 'was ontside his province; but he made it quite

has never been so favourable. The schem has the goodwill of the Governments. of this country and of France, and that in itself is almost everything that matters,

Of 1ourse the military arguments against the Channel Tunnel, which are most peuple, still very well-known to

be

47

who have suffered buch grievous losses in FEEDING CENTRAL EUROPE. shipping and in lives at the hands of

LORD LANSDOWNE'S APPEAL. German pirates, refused to bargain: and

Details of the Nary Estimates for An enthusiastic and overflowing gather within the last few days the result of this STARVATION AND BOLSHEVISM

1919-20, show that the maximum establishing was held at the Canon-street Hotel frm attitude is sean in the acceptance of

In the House of Lords, on March 8th, ment of officers and men, including on March 6th, for the purpose of in-

Mr. Kennedy Jones,

pre- the Allied demand for the unconditional Viscount Wimborne asked what steps, it Coastguard and Raral. Marines, will be augurating the Middle Classes Enion.. surrender of the German mercantile any, the Government proposed to take to 280,000, while the net expenditure is ex sided, said he was gind to see so many rofieve the food situation in Central pected to amouns to £149.200,000. It is lading present, because they had felt more Newspapers both here and in Franes marine. Some 150 vessels comprising this Surope. According to reports the noble explained that this sum represents the keenly than the men, the hardships and expres satisfaction about the proposed feet, representing 3 million tons, will be Viscount said, the situation had been seri. estimated requirements necording to the keenly that burdens that during the pus for one considerable time past, but information at present available. Revis past five years bad pressed on the middle Contraction of the Channel Tunnel.used to re-victual our beaten foes. Three good deal of uncertainty existed weed figures will be presented to Parliament classes. They had met to inauguraze an

This accuracy

reports.

organisation to combine for their cominion They perceive in the undertaking not only fourths of this tonnage will come under the

however,

evidence of a more substantial later in the session.-

As regards personnel. the total of protection those members of the com a design of great practical utility, but British management-and-German credits character had come to hand. Sie Joho

tive of the Inter Allied Food Distribu- compared with the number voted last had no organismsions to safeguard their At the invitation of the French Govern. also something of moral and spiritual abroad will be taken as security for the Beale, who was the British representa-250,000 represents a reduction of 1700munity working with brain and

wanted means which would enable thetu meat, two British squadrons are visiting value that will draw Britain and France payment of the food bill, while £12,000,000 |rion in Paris, bad resigned for reasoris year, namely, 430,000. The figure of domestic and political interests.

on his part against the inaction of the and men who will be either in receipts when they were threatened either An elaborate programme of a more closely together. Mr. Bonar Law in gold has been deposited for the same not quite clear, unless due to a protest 280.000 does not. however, include corse co-operative action to defend them--

Allie in dealing with this matter. Thereof may from non-effective votes only or was a fear thai

Rhine-might gradually Governments, and naval officers who will and they wanted to endeavour by con certed action, by active propaganda, to sink down under the menace of the tere be paid out of shore establishment, resarcise such pressure as a strong organ- the Red Terror. The ruin and anarchy rible scourge of Bolshevista as the result dockyard) votes, int will not be beste on

ition alone could yield, to secure an of want of food, and thereby we would ships books.

mandent of the laws under which tho The number voted represents a maxi-

classes were unfairly prejudiced. did so much to trente in Russia menaces The Marquis of Lansdowne confessed

mum which may not be exceeded, and in (Cheers:) The union also sought on the condition of things prevailing in years immediately prior to the war was scrutinise and watch all legislation to It has wrought inmense damage in Berlin Central Europe. It seemed to him that not reached until the end of the financial cusure that the middle classes were not the whole structure of German society. that be looked with the most dismay

were

year. In 1919-20, however, it is necessary unjustly exploited, and to support by. and taken toll of many hundreds of lives we We should be more than human if we did catastrophe which might prove to be one to vote the maximum as an initial num-legal action, if necessary, the intereste of the most disastrous that had ever ober; that is, the number, approximately of any member which raised questions of not regard with equanimity what has

treer in the history of heem word of the alicers, men, and boys who, it is-seneral principle acting.

hear. That catastrophe might be anticipated, will be serving on, April 1st, classes as a whole. (Cheers.) The funds and management, in the first instance, including the destruction of property, are that we were at least doing what we reduced during the period of demobili

4 battleships, one cruiser, and eight destroy-weakened by the experiences of the war. ers, commanded by Vier Admiral Leveson, The days of our splendid isolation" tooting and pillage, the murder of inne could to avert it and that we were not sation. The rate of demobilisation and executive committee, which would draw taken to alleviate the will be necessary to provide under peace of the union. Local branches, would bo at once formed in every Parliamentary The town is profusely are over. Whether we will or not, Fatent victims, and, in short, the splauding in the way of any measure the number of the personnel for which it up rules for the promotion of the objects--

circam-division in the kingdom, and a final draft As to the facts, he did not think there stances which cannot yet be clearly fore of the constitution of the union and a has decreed that Great Britain must play Programme of horror piled on horror pressure of adversity in these, regions.onditions are dependent on

of all the proceedings of the pro report was much doubt. We could not pretend that we had been unprepared for these

Below are set out the details of expervisional central executive committee would events. In the autumn of last year Mr.

diture:-

he submitted for their approval and Hoover said that of some 52,000,000 people

adoption to a grand council composed of delegites from all centres. were only 40,000,000 who had the prospect The danger at the moment is lest of getting enough food to carry them to the harvest of this year, That was 80 the extremists should get the upper hand long as imports were prevented from would afford for easier and quicker cond proclains Bolshevism. That would reaching them--a very important reserva munication between the two pauntries are

not suit the Allied programme åt alltion. They also had the reports made by fourteen officers who were specially sent

told the same story apparent.

Peace cannot be concluded with anal out to investigate the condition of things. perhaps, to keep budy chists, nor eau reparation be exacted from. All these

nourish human being; of "scarcity of

As a result of the visit, leading articles in French newspapers par warm tributes to the British Navy,

Curnovac, April 29ud.

approaching rapidly

A British squadron. comprising foxt exist. but they have been somewhat happened of late in the ex-Kaiser's cap inevitable, but certainly we ought to feel 1919. This number will be substantially would be vested in the provisional central-

has arrived. decorated.

BAEST, April 22nd.

a leading part in Continental affairs in future; and it matters not whether there is à League of Nations or no niliance of

A second squadron, consisting of five cruisers, and eight destroyers, command Enormous crewde welcomed the naval essential as

which Germans bave made familliar to the world. Berlin escaped all through the war only o esta from German soldiers

which might be.

ed by Commodore Tyrwhitt,, has arrived. I the kind at all, a Franco-British pact is what war means to..civilians in invaded whose case 'was present to his mind, there

men.

EARLIER CABLES SOUTH AFRICAN · NATIONAL MOVEMENT.

GENERAL DERTZOU'S

DELEGATIN

a bulwark of European liberty. The facilities which the Tunnel

If and when the work is completed it "will be possible for the traveller to the

territories.

of rations

East testep into the train in London and Germany unless there is some form of and youth me but not sufficient to

EFFECTIVE SERVICES Wages ete., of officers, sea, inen, and boys coastguard and Royal Marines Victualling and clothing Medical establishments and

services Civilians employed on, ffect

services .... Educational services Scientific services..... Royal Naval Reserves

step off at a terminys on the Persian Gulf stable Government with which, to make fuel; the impossibility of getting cloth Shipbuilding, repairs, main-

suming that the line to Baghdad will

∙LONDON, April Zink

he finished by then and carried on to, the Reuter leurns that the Hertzog Delega

sen, And of course, in like maaner Con... tion has sent a letter to Mr. Lloyd Georgystantinople and Cairo would also come asking to be precived by the Government in this railway time table, act to men

It is understood that His Majesty's tion other places old in story."- Government will be guided in South Tv ESTIMATES. African matters by the advice of General)

In his capacity is First Sea Lord, Mr. Walter Long, intendacing the Navy Botha'and his colleagues, and also by the Estimates, gave some striking fagures

Enion Governant.

GERMANY'S "TROUBLES. MARTIAL LAW PROCLAIMED IN

Treaty.

THE CENYORSHIP...

ing and, following on all these things. of the terrible debility and inertia which were spreading am

among the people. Then disease the old disease,.. A demand is made for the removal of there was

extreme privation; children dying in the censorship which still exists here to tuberculosis; new disease engendered by the annoyance of everybody in communica-numbers, many born dead, and with all tion"with countries abroad. The Daily this a steadily growing despair which. acemed to bring closer every day" the Mail coundly accuses the Government of spectre of Bolshevism. keeping the Press Bureau going so as to have a Department in being for deling out to the Press items of information concerting the part that the Navy and which it is deemed desirable to place The paper plainly Merchant Service performed in the war before the public. From August, 1914, to March, 1010, our tells Ministers that British newspapers ships carried 23,000,000 effectives, and are not dependent upon officialdom for over 3,338,241 non combatants, 192,000 information. They can always get facts prisoners, 2, 264,134 animals, and $12,000 when they want them; and, in any case, This was in addition to the Press here will never submit to be vehicles, 47,902.530 tons of military stores and spoon-led by Government, no matter what 4,064,811 of live stores. Under the head Party is in power. since the TELEGRAPHIC DELAYS of mine-sweeping alone, Armistice 3,300 moored mines have beca cinemas, theatres and destroyed, and no merchant ship follow schools hure been closed and all publicing the prescribed routes has been dam aged by A moored mine. Moreover, all traffic stopped

through the war no ship failed to sail for lack of men and men went to sea again who had been torpedoed or mined three or four times..

ja

BREMEN.

BERLIN. April 23rd. Owing to Spartacist agitation, mat- tial law has been proclaimed in Bremen: The publication of newspapers, – pam- phlets and placards is forbidden.

Restaurants.

- The people have been ordered to remain indoors from eight in the evening until six in the morning. Women and children are allowed in the streets as little.axi possible

FIGHTING BOLSHEVISM. ANOTHER VICTORY FOR ADMIRAL KOLTCHAR.

to

THE SILVER MARKET......... Losos. April 29th. 'Silver is quoted at 411/16. The market is steady,

+F

. *1

Another subject of complaint ever since the Armistice is the delays in telephoning and telegraphing. The Government De partients have enjoyed priority through out the war, and they have hung on to their privileged positing It has fre quently taken hours to get through on the phone because of Government monopoly of the wires. As regards the telegraph service, it was nothing for a message to be delayed ten or twelve hours between

reached such a pitch that Mr. Illing towns twenty miles apart. The scandal

But the story of the Navy is an "cft told tale. The Navy emerges from the On December 31st war greater than ever. last we had 3 Dreadnought battleships, and nine Dreadnought cruisers, all of which were in commission except two worth, the P.M.G., has now put his foot

$28,000,000 11,300.000

tenance, etc. Section 1-Personnel... Section Hatriel Section 3 tract work Naval armaments and avia

at home and abroad... Works, buildings, and repairs Miscellaneous effective services. Admiralty Office

tion.

...

FIGHTING STRIKES.

So class had been made so bitterly to feel the burden of the war as the middle class: no class had been more distinguish. ed for its endurance, determination, and 000,000

resourcefulness, and no class, in propor-. tion to its numbers, had contributed more 170.00

in men. money, and services: (Cheers.) 330,000

Yet what had a realisation on since the 400,000 armistice!" Instead of

700.000 all parts of the community that the waste

of war must be balanced by increased pro duction, by strong public and private 14.000,000 economies, by the relaxation of wartime 18.300.000 restrictions on business, and a reduction 37,800,000 in the cost of living, they saw the bureau- crais entrenching themselves more than 19,000,000 ever, and wire entanglements being built on very home front. The organised work. 102n, simply because he was organised the miner, transport worker, and railway. an--was threatening the industrial Iffe of the nation if it did not stabilise war They wanted as in peace time. brought into the middle class homes that ray of sunshine which the Prime Minister had asked for the work cottage. If they were not ang to be left?

6.500.000 3,500,000 1,380.030

Total effective services...£137,090,000

"NON-EFFECTIVE' SERVICES,

Half-pay and retired pay. Naval and marine pensions,

gratuities and

compas- sionate allowances......

Grand total

1,022,000

10.85.000 nenily in the shade between the

and the employer, iboy must

the union as strong as they "pos-

even the Government

and

Having referred to Mr. Churchill's statement in the House of Commons that now was the moment to settle with-Ger many, and that the Allies were enforcing the blockade with rigour, Lord Lans downe said it might be asked how long was this process of turning the screw, of

ing the weapon of starvation, likely Civil superannuation, com- uf last lo was apparently intended to

pensation allowances and

could. It was said that the middle use it until Germany had accepted the What he

gratuities.

473,000 classes were too respectable, and that they would детет combine. He denied that. terms we desire to impose. rather hoped to get from the Government

Total non effective services 214,190,002 If they combined and made their union a was a statement as to whether by that

strong, living reality, it would be possible. was meant that we were to go on with

.£118,200,000 | for them to become such a powerful body

that they would be able to "

bold up this policy of blockade and starvation until A final and complete settlement of

The vote for educational services in-workers, capitalists, profiteers. all outstanding claim had been reached. If that was intended, then the prospect eludes provision for the expense of io before us was indeed a most disquieting struction at Cambridge Eniversity of one. Starving everybody into Bolshevism young naval officers whose education in the Royal Naval Colleges was curtailed was the danger he was afraid of.

Lord Farmoor said that according to owing to the war. statistics starvation to a considerable Contract work under the head of shipbailding provides for the building extent was going on in Rumania. regarded conditions in certain parts of and repair of ships by contract, and for Germany, he hoped their lordships would.

end carefully the considered report made propelling and auxiliary machinery. by fourteen British officers. He used the Arious, and sun-mountings-required-for-uld bring their power to bear on public

ferment when the strangling blockade ships building in the Royal dackyards was to be brought to an end or relaxed. The provision for aviation services cover Unless the blockade was relaxed it meant the construction of airships and the main- the Continent the horrors of absolute bringing home to millions of people on tebance of airships and airship stations. famine. That would be the most fearful country. What was wanted was the en couragement of industrial reconstruction crime in history if brought home to any in Central Europe at the earliest possible

moment

GOVERNMENT REPLY.

Ás

authori

A strong union bould demand the pay- ment of, income-tax in full by all who came within its scope. (Hear, hear. They could demand that the manual labourer should be made to pay-oheers

that the tax should be collected at

surance contribution. There were inham- chable other directions in which they

The union would

its source, like the National Health In-

and private wrongs.

on

the First Sea Lord was necessarily some Fable commandeering of the services that hands of the Supreme Economic Council except by consulting the supre what he comer could also insist on the

BOHEMIA AND VATICAN DRASTIC REFORM DEMANDS.

RS A

a third party

you are going to place yourselves in such a position as to be able to insist on square and fair deal in all things, and, above all, on the right to live (Cheers.) UNJUST BURDENA. Major Marmaduke Lowther moved the

have expert committees dealing with tional and local problems through o central organisation, such as income ta labour disputes, education, alien immi gration, housing, election of candidates for public bodies, and general industrial DIFFICULTIES WITH GERMANY.

problems. By co-operative action they In the case of Germany there was this could, in the event of an unreasonable organise particular dificulty that the mercantile strike, call on their members o marine tonnage, which had been demanded transport and other services, and use by us from German ports in order to them to break the strike by volunteer The estimates provide for 280,000 men;

The Earl of Crawford said he thought relieve distress was not yet forthcoming.labour. (Cheers.) They could refuse to and it is now stated that the question down, and Government messages must Omsx, April 18th.

serve strikers pr. their families or tha Lord Wimborne was aware that the Bri- That was a most significant fact.

Lord Lansdowne had asked when the employers with goods or professional sex- Koltchak's" troops

are of pay will be dealt with by the Ad-take their turn with those handed in by

the public.

tish, Government did not act alone in Admiral

Herices they could assist in preventing pro At the same time the cables are to be these matters. The arrangements for the blockade was going to be raised.

to captured themiralty in a way that will give satisfac- have reported

tion to the Service. As to the future, partially freed from the wholly unjustifi-relief of distress in Europe were in the could not possibly answer such a question Steering; and carry on an agitation

compel co-operative societies fo Pay ins But in view of

для well as other. people. (Hear, important Junction of Ateryze, with con

has been the rule with Government De sitting in Paris, of which Lord, R. Cecilties in Paris. siderable war material: also the town of

what vague: The Admiralty recognise partments. The lines have been blocked was the British representative, and of had said about the fact that Gernians bear)

had

enforcement of contracts invalidated by failed to surrender any of its mer: a few days

would ensure Lion the necessity of economy, but Mr. Long for 20 hours at a stretch with official which Mr. Hoover was, watil Glazofi.

recognition of the public Bolshevist reports admit that the Red suggested generally that the only plan messages, and it has taken cablegrams ago, the Director-General of Relief, cantile tannge he imagined that faet legislation which

over a week to get through from the Far These matters, therefore, were not settled had been taken into account by Marshal rece the whole at present possible is to make the Navy East. Now Government will only have in London or by the British Government. Foch and others, and that the time was

Kennedy Jonei, in conclusion that you are not going to be squeezed or crumbed". Armiente retreating on

in the future strong enough at sen to alternate half-hour use of the cables, the There was no concealment Gonents not quite ripe for raising the blockade in trade disputes. See to it," said Mr.

or made to hear unjust burdens, but that. Eastern Front:

show the Flag throughout the Empire, other half-hour being available for pri.that the situation in Central and South-So far as we and our Allies were con

vate messages.-H.B.

est Europe gave cause for great anxiety cerned, be asked their lordships to take The question referred only to Central note of the fact that we had only just to uphold that Empire, and to do every

Europe, very serious.

but the situation throughout got sufficient tonnage to meet our own That tonnage was not sufficient He did not needs. Europe thing possible to increase trade.'

mean to convey the impression that since in quantity to give us free choice of mar the armistice nothing had been done to kete. We had not got enough tonnage to CONDITION OF GERMANY.

Conditions in Germany have been

relieve distress. On the contrary, at the offer food supplies to enemy countries. obscure for months and still remain so

The wind of unrest which is blowing present moment Austria was being fed We fed a great part of Europe through following resolution: Silver is quoted 'atigd. The market in spite of the perambulations of Special

from British resources and partly out the war, but we were not in a posi partly

is of opinion thank diately after the war. So far as tonnage the time has arrived when an organisa is quiet,

Correspondents in the country. The to fiercely over Europe appears to be raff. From supplies advanced by Italy, and tion to feed the whole of Europe imme- law-abiding meeting of taxpayers and tion should be formed by which the urid- the settled order of the Catholic Switzerland. In addition effective step was concerned, we should have, for the ing even

dle classes will be enabled to act collec people were said to be on the verge of Church According to a telegram from had been taken both from this country

to rely largely on "RECORD OF GERMAN PILLAGE starvation. They were said,. again, to Frague to the representative of Bohemia and from the Supreme Council in Paris moment at any rate,States in pro- | tively and by combining their voting

to protect themselves frm unjust i Czecho-Slovak Roman Catholic ecclesiasGermany itself, 30,000 tons of bacon and niding a sufficiency of food. The Supreme | pow of taxation and inflated prices in Switzerland meeting of nearly 500 to send food to Ramania. As regarded the efforts of the United

was fully burdens The German depredations in the North.have enough food, although some essen-

tics has been held in the Bohemian capi- very large quantities of condensed milk Economic Counal in Paris

aware of the profound seriousness of the of the necessaries of life, and there ginning of the war until April 30th, afirmed, was driving the Germans into tal to consider the question of Church were on their way there, Arrangements whole situation, and it was hoped that expresses its hearty approval of the era Department of France from the tin things were lacking. Hunger, it was

reform The meeting, after a lengthy had also been made to assist the Serbian during the course of the next few weeks, Middle Classes Union, and pledves itself

and the distress in 1917, show figures sufficiently eloquent to

Lithuania, pending the transfer of the German s to use every legitimate means to enrice.

MOR- the German with lenichey. The follow-sincere observera declared that the Hupsing the following changes:

(3.)-Suppression of the right of tenegro, Finland, and, he ing merchandise was stolen by the Ger were bluffing the Eatente. Amit these

patronage in all eclesiastical, appoint Bulgaria. It should be understood, how some emergency measure to stave off any The-penker observed that the

ever, that the internal difficulties of a impending disaster.

Lord Harris expressed surprise that 274,001,3977 conflicting stories "the man in the street”!

(2) Election of bishops by the paro-country could be such as to paralyse word of sympathy had been said for 6.314,179 has been at a loss to know what to

chial clergy and the laity.

not to eliminate altogether, the employ-. believe.

(3.Use of the mother-tongue of the 106,347,324

proved in the case of Russia. Thousands France, where factories had been destroy One thing, however, is certain-that if people in all Divine services and relient of relief from, outside. That was Belgium and the Northern parts of financial groups and profiteers in the

ed by the Germans, and people were with 1,494,2001

Gus ceremonies

of people in Russia were starving, owing out means of sustenance. On the other 4,831,189 the German Government really feared the

German factories were intact,

Mr. J. R. Pretvman Newman, · KI. P.. (4-Abolition of the celibper of to the new dispensation of polition had bands arquis of Salisbury also thought said that in the House of Commons tha 4,420.012

Although these arrangements priests and bishops. 3,190,282 spectre of Famine, as they represented was

Democratisation of the Consistory already been made, it was no use suggest the claims of Belgium and Northern party system was dend, and the Flours 10,381,956 the case, they had the remedy in their

series of interested groups. and the Vicariate.g

that they were adequate to meet the France should come first. At the same was run by a ing Cser own hands. From the cause they were (6) Priests-and-bishope not to be needs of the situation... Countries, wh time, he was appalled at the mount, of The Clovernment took no head of zbora. 411,770, C581

human suffering now taking place on the voiceless groups, such as John Cibrzen promised food on condition that they compelled to shave nor wear the rabat bankrupt; internal distribution

the latter is the black shirt front worn that transport was worse than it had extrContinent. Anything the Government and therefore the establishment of

been before; and, Enally, arrangements In addition to the number

were apt to change from month to month. (Continued at foot of next "column)

disquiet those pacifists who would treat anarchy; on the other hand, equally discussion, adopted a resolation demand-situation, Caucasus, ht, also cautilo marine it might be possible by

маля

Woollen goods Cotton wares Hemp, linen, cloth; thread,

and canva

Textiles

Rubber

Leather

Wood

Building materials

Total

Esthonia,

such

its success,

had no connection with any politica): party. The widdie classes had been te ploited by the lower classes and by the upper classes. They bad also been ploited by the politicians, simply because they were not organised.

To these robberies must be added from handed over ships Lot its transport, bat by all-Catholic priests) of ecclesias had to be made with Governments which could do to relieve that would have the styong middle-clarkes union was absolute

(about £18,470,000). £100,000,000 to £150,000,000 damages and deterioration to mills and workshops, they refused to do anything of the kind heavy war contributions, and fines im- except upon specific tarma which they posed by the Germans during their occupar wished to impose Naravally the Allies, tion. The figuren for 1918 are not known

tics present at the meeting, 744 others wrote supporting the resolution, while only 44 wrote expressing dissent.

in this country. sympathy of the great mass of the people necessary

The subject the dropped.

The resolution was carried, Cheers,